Kirtland Air Force Base is named after Colonel Roy Carrington Kirtland, the third oldest military pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps at the time of his death in 1941. He played a prominent role in the early Air Corps aviation.Born at Fort Benton, Montana, on May 14, 1874, Kirtland enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1898, eventually earning a commission as

The Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System satellite was launched April 16, 2008. The C/NOFS mission is a prototype of an operational system to forecast the ambient ionosphere and scintillations. Scintillations are caused by naturally occurring irregularities and lead to fluctuations in communication signals that decrease

Citizenship - Applicants must be a citizen of the United States. Proof of U.S. citizenship will be required at the time of selection (i.e., original birth certificate issued by State, county, or municipal authority bearing a seal or other certification; United States passport; or naturalization certification). Qualifications - Applicants must meet

Model contracts (applicable to Broad Agency Announcements) Because the BAA solicitation and award process generally provides for awarding a wide range of contracts. it is typically not possible to include all of the required and potentially desired provisions, clauses, terms and conditions applicable to any given contract award that might result

The Air Force Research Laboratory's, Directed Energy Directorate participated in a counter UAV demonstration in May 2008, at Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake, California showcasing the ability to track small airborne targets from a ground based mobile platform and negate them using high power microwave (HPM) technology. Using a surrogate high